The United States enters World War 1. Men of the United States 3rd Division march towards Chateau Thierry. Soldiers of the United States 2nd Division advance to the war front. Soldiers loaded onto trucks as they move through a French town towards the front. French soldiers on side of the road applaud as they pass. Soldiers in trenches with guns. U.S. soldiers fire M1917A1 water cooled Browning machine gun. French 320 mm railway guns being fired. Soldiers put on gas masks and commence firing small trench mortars.. Soldiers fire at the enemy from the trenches. Their rifles have fixed bayonets. (World War I; World War 1; WWI; WW1)
President Harry Truman in Germany. President Truman drives away in a staff car from the Gatow Airport in Germany. A truck loaded with United States soldiers drives past. A band and men of the 2nd Armored Division stand in formation as the President reviews them. Soldiers salute. A long line of cars as President Truman drives off to the airport. (World War II period).
United States 2nd Infantry Division soldiers near Missy-Aux-Bois, France during World War I. The soldiers fire rifles from trenches. A piece of cloth spread over bushes in the background.
The Battle of Monte Cassino. Aerial view of the town and abbey in Italy. During an exercise west of Cassino, near Monte Camino, New Zealand gunners fire British 6 Pounder Antitank gun and a captured German Pak 40 75mm antitank gun, Views of the anti-tank men loading and firing their weapon. Smoke rises due to the firing. As part of the exercise, Infantry of 24th Battalion, 2nd Division,New Zealand Expeditionary Force, advance with fixed bayonets and one fires a machine gun. Group of New Zealand soldiers stand near a jeep and a destroyed U.S. Sherman tank of 756th Tank Battalion, amidst destroyed buildings in the north of Cassino. Several New Zealand soldiers smile for the camera. (World War II period).
The Battle of Monte Cassino in Italy. Soldiers of the U.S. 2nd Corps advance uphill past a marked mine field. They take up firing positions overlooking a valley, from where they fire rifles and a machine gun. German targets in the valley explode. Heavy white smoke is seen. The troops move through rocky area filled with shrubs and then run across an open field. (World War II period).
An aerodrome is attacked by a U.S. aircraft on 17th March 1944 in the European Theater during World War II. A U.S. aircraft of 8th Fighter Command is piloted by 2nd Lieutenant R. Van Stryland of 376th Squadron. The P-47 Thunderbolt fighter strafes a flak tower and a taxiing Focke-Wulf Fw-190. The aircraft strafes a parked Messerschmitt Me 410. The aircraft follows another P-47 as it makes a low pass while strafing the Me 410.
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